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Just wait a little bit,
You know that great extended edition of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly that came out last year? Well, they said if sales for that were good enough, the two prequels would get the same treatment. Guess what. They are. I just found out that A Fistful Of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More will be remastered completely, with deleted scenes added into the film, just like the remastered GBU. Here are the special features that will accompany the movie:

-Fully Restored Sound and Picture
-Audio Commentary
-A New Standard - Documentary
-Back For More - Clint Eastwood Interview
-Tre Voci - Interviews with Sergio Leone
-Original American Release Version + Featurette on Alternative Versions
-Restoration Notebook
-Locations Comparisons
-Rare Double Bill Trailer
-Collector's Gallery
-Radio Spots
-Original Theatrical Trailer

Yeah, I'd say it's worth waiting until this summer (or April 18th if you're in Europe) to pick this gem up. My 3 star rating isn't for the movie itself, just the poor dvd. It has no real special features (do trailers even count at this point?), and the visual quality is unacceptable. That will all change here very soon. So just hold on a bit, and it'll be worth it.

See This BEFORE The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The title of this pretty much sums up my feelings on this film. As I watched it, I kept thinking to myself that nearly everything that this movie does, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly does better.

One of the movie's greatest struggles comes in Leone's attempts to give his characters some degree of depth. While he suceeds at this task masterfully in other films (Once Upon a Time in the West), here the characters are muddled, their motives underdeveloped. This is especially true of Van Cleef: we are meant to understand that he has personal reasons for hunting the film's main bandit, but the communication of this comes off rather poorly. At this point Leone had not apparently realized that Van Cleef would make a much better villain than "hero." A greater problem of characterization come with El Indio: far from having any established motives, he acts seemingly at random, wandering off into an opium haze for a moment before becoming a ruthless killer. He doesn't manage to channel the sheer evil that some of Leone's other villains do (Frank, Angel Eyes), instead playing more of a sleepy drug addict who can shoot rather well.

Morricone's score, while haunting and often beautiful, is a pale echo of the full, robust score he composed for TGtBatU (here echo is meant literally...the music here sounds very similar to that in TgtBatU, but is lacking the "body.") Anyone who has seen Ugly will often hear snippets of the excellent theme from that film, but notice that pieces are seemingly missing.

It could be said that this was perhaps Leone's "first try" at making TGtBatU: most of the key elements are there, but, lacking the necessary refinement of characters and other elements, this film falls short of its successor. However, even a first try like this is fully watchable, especially if you haven't seen Ugly. On its own, this movie is an excellent western; gorgeous scenery, epic gunfights: nearly all the crucial elements are present.

great story
This time for a few dollars more,the story revolves around a new bounty hunter called angel eyes,CLint returns and is not as comical as he was in the first.I think he's showing us that he has become more of a serious bounty hunter since he got messed up in fistful.LEE van Cleef is on a revenge mission while eastwood is playing angel eyes and the bandits for a few dollars more.It's worth owning,so is the score.thanks

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